The debt of science to medicine : being the Harveian oration delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London on St. Luke's Day, 1924 / by Archibald E. Garrod.
- Garrod, Archibald E. (Archibald Edward), Sir, 1857-1936.
- Date:
- 1924
Licence: In copyright
Credit: The debt of science to medicine : being the Harveian oration delivered before the Royal College of Physicians of London on St. Luke's Day, 1924 / by Archibald E. Garrod. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![1829) who first organized courses of instruction his own laboratory in Paris, and this method w followed by Thenard (1777-1857) and Gay-Luss (1763-1829), and greatly extended by Liebig (180; 73). Ernst von Meyer states that the laboratory ' Thomas Thomson (1773-1852), a Doctor of Medici] of Edinburgh and Professor of Chemistry in Glasgow was the first to provide practical teaching in Gre Britain, and it was not till 1845 that the College Chemistry was established in London, with A. V Hofmann as its director. The list of physician chemists is a long one, ar only a few of the most eminent can be mentione First may be recalled John Mayow (1643-75), or of the greatest of them all. Mayow stands high c the roll of physiologists, as well as on that of chemist From the point which he reached, only one stc remained to the complete explanation of respiratic and combustion, and but for his too early death tl discovery of oxygen would almost certainly have bee antedated by a century, and phlogiston would nev« have been heard of. Although a Doctor of Civil La^ Mayow practised medicine at Bath. A contemporary of Mayow was our Fellow Thom; Willis (1621-75), whose work upon the anatomy < the brain is commemorated by the circle of arterii which bears his name. But Willis was also no med chemist, and to him we owe the discovery of glycosuri Mention must be made of Friedrich Hoffmann < Halle (1660—1742), a contemporary of Boerhaave, an of the illustrious Herman Boerhaave (1668-173$ himself, whose treatise on chemistry was long the be: text-book of the subject. Yet, eminent as Boerhaa\ was as a chemist, it was as a physician and Professc of Medicine that he was pre-eminent, and it w<- during his tenure of its chair of physic that Leyder as a school of medicine, reached its zenith. Cullen (1710-90), Joseph Black (1728—99), th](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3080100x_0018.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
